One of the hardest things to portray in Yosemite National Park is the sense of scale of the whole place especially when photographing the landscape, one of the best ways to display a sense of scale in landscape photography is to include something that we can relate to such as a building or people. It was [...]

For any photographer with an interest in landscape photography a visit to Yosemite National Park is a pilgrimage that should be made at some time, when Adams first wrote of Yosemite he said “the splendor of Yosemite burst upon us and it was glorious… One wonder after another descended upon us… There was light everywhere… [...]

12 am on a Saturday I arrived in Shanghai to find probablly the worst Pollution Smog I have seen in the 17yrs I have spent in China. This was a Beijing problem although the pollution levels in Suzhou and Shanghai did rise quite high they have never been this bad. The readings from the Shanghai [...]

Night time is when South Korean cities come to life, during the day most of the cities look pretty similar and you have to look pretty hard to find buildings over 30 – 40 years old. The exception is central Seoul where there are some fantastic palaces and temples. The Sungnyemun (Namdaemun) Gate was burnt down [...]

During a recent trip to Miami I spent a couple of hours in the Everglades National Park, on a guided tour provided by the Energlades Safari Park, conditions were not perfect as it was a cloudy and cool day in southern Florida, which ment that the Alligators in the park were pretty inactive as they [...]

Polo – The Sport of Kings has been played in China in some form over history, but the modern form of the game was refined by officers and men of the British Army, who used the game to refine their horsemanship skills and team coordination. A display of amazing horsemanship, speed, Share this:

Shanghai Tianma Circuit (STC) is about half way between Shanghai and Suzhou, located close to the Sheshan Leisure Area in Shanghai, this Sunday (05th May 2013) I was fortunate enough to meet with the people at Art of Speed Racing (ASR) and gain access to trackside to do some photography. There were a series of races [...]

OK, not quite what you were expecting when you put ‘High Speed Photography’ into google or another search engine, but the principals are the same using a high speed of around 1/800 sec you can freeze even an F1 car at full speed down the straight. But that would make for very boring photgraphs of [...]

March comes around and it is F1 season again, another year of Sundays spent glued to the television or computer to see who will be the fastest driver in the world, last year this was Sebastian Vettel for Red Bull Racing. The one Sunday during the season when I am not glued to a screen is [...]

The rest of the time in Singapore was spent wandering around, tasting some of the wonderful Singaporean cuisine which is an eclectic mix of many different cultures, breakfast in China Town, dinner in Little India, the one thing I did not get to sample this time around was the Singapore Pepper Crab, whilst looking out for [...]

One of the hardest things to portray in Yosemite National Park is the sense of scale of the whole place especially when photographing the landscape, one of the best ways to display a sense of scale in landscape photography is to include something that we can relate to such as a building or people. It was [...]

For any photographer with an interest in landscape photography a visit to Yosemite National Park is a pilgrimage that should be made at some time, when Adams first wrote of Yosemite he said “the splendor of Yosemite burst upon us and it was glorious… One wonder after another descended upon us… There was light everywhere… [...]

12 am on a Saturday I arrived in Shanghai to find probablly the worst Pollution Smog I have seen in the 17yrs I have spent in China. This was a Beijing problem although the pollution levels in Suzhou and Shanghai did rise quite high they have never been this bad. The readings from the Shanghai [...]

Night time is when South Korean cities come to life, during the day most of the cities look pretty similar and you have to look pretty hard to find buildings over 30 – 40 years old. The exception is central Seoul where there are some fantastic palaces and temples. The Sungnyemun (Namdaemun) Gate was burnt down [...]

During a recent trip to Miami I spent a couple of hours in the Everglades National Park, on a guided tour provided by the Energlades Safari Park, conditions were not perfect as it was a cloudy and cool day in southern Florida, which ment that the Alligators in the park were pretty inactive as they [...]

Polo – The Sport of Kings has been played in China in some form over history, but the modern form of the game was refined by officers and men of the British Army, who used the game to refine their horsemanship skills and team coordination. A display of amazing horsemanship, speed,

Shanghai Tianma Circuit (STC) is about half way between Shanghai and Suzhou, located close to the Sheshan Leisure Area in Shanghai, this Sunday (05th May 2013) I was fortunate enough to meet with the people at Art of Speed Racing (ASR) and gain access to trackside to do some photography. There were a series of races [...]

OK, not quite what you were expecting when you put ‘High Speed Photography’ into google or another search engine, but the principals are the same using a high speed of around 1/800 sec you can freeze even an F1 car at full speed down the straight. But that would make for very boring photgraphs of [...]

March comes around and it is F1 season again, another year of Sundays spent glued to the television or computer to see who will be the fastest driver in the world, last year this was Sebastian Vettel for Red Bull Racing. The one Sunday during the season when I am not glued to a screen is [...]

The rest of the time in Singapore was spent wandering around, tasting some of the wonderful Singaporean cuisine which is an eclectic mix of many different cultures, breakfast in China Town, dinner in Little India, the one thing I did not get to sample this time around was the Singapore Pepper Crab, whilst looking out for [...]